Archive for September, 2009

Down Like Rain

15th September 2009 by RPorter No Comments

Rockefeller Center by a Rainy Night by syvwich, used under a Creative Commons License
And when it comes down, will we all be swallowed in a blue-violet mist, praying to celebrity entertainers to carry us up to their high towers? Or will they go first, engulfed by an inverted deluge welling down from the sky? [...]

Tea and Pitchforks

12th September 2009 by RPorter No Comments

I wanted to write something about the demonstration in DC today that said something a little more useful than “Wow, these people are dumbasses.” I think it was going to argue that the folks who showed up at today’s event had some legitimate concerns about government intrusion into the private affairs of citizens. Or maybe [...]

Rain. Night. City.

5th September 2009 by RPorter No Comments

Raining night, pavement… by Oimax, used under a Creative Commons License

… and when you get home, you have a coffee or a whiskey, maybe a cigarette. You put on some slow. soulful tunes and open the window so the music and the rain can harmonize.
It’s cold, and soon to be colder, but right now the [...]